The Met Gala is the annual ball that kicks off the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s yearly Costume Institute exhibit. This year’s tribute was to Charles James, America’s First Couturier, and Monday night the stars came out in their best haute couture. But when you’re aiming for couture, sometimes it can be hit or miss. Check…

Three weeks ago, more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted from their school in Chibok, Nigeria. Militant Islamic group Boko Haram has confirmed, via a video, that it is indeed behind the kidnapping. In the video, group leader Abubakar Shekau said the girls should not have been in school in the first place but should be…

Earlier this year, Saturday Night Live made a huge step toward diversifying its cast by hiring Sasheer Zamata, the show’s first black woman in six years. Zamata was hired after SNL was publicly criticized for not having a black female regular who could portray black women in skits. People were pretty much fed up with…

In what can be considered an Olivia Pope, covert-style move, Scandal star Kerry Washington gave birth to a baby girl two weeks ago and no one knew about it! According to TMZ, Washington and her husband, former NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha, welcomed Isabelle Amarachi Asomugha on April 21. Those Scandal skills definitely were in full effect,…

Leon Jenkins had just one job to do as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP. What was that one job? How about not accepting money from a known racist? Or how about not honoring a known racist with an award? Well, make that two jobs Jenkins had to do, and at which…

Michael Jackson fans around the world are rejoicing in the fact that his new single, “Love Never Felt So Good,” has finally been released. But it’s not exactly “new.” The song was written, recorded and produced in 1983 with Paul Anka, but has been updated to fit present music trends, according to an Epic Records…

D.L. Hughley is now backpedaling and apologizing for recent comments he made about the domestic issues Columbus Short and his estranged wife, Tanee McCall-Short, are facing. Earlier this month, McCall-Short filed for divorce and obtained a restraining order, saying that Short had threatened to kill her, and himself, during an argument. Apparently Hughley was #teamColumbus,…

Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice pleaded not guilty to a charge of third-degree aggravated assault and applied for a pretrial intervention program Thursday morning in Mays Landing, N.J. According to CBS Sports, third-degree aggravated assault, a felony, carries a potential sentence of three to five years in prison. In February Rice and his then-fiancee,…

Has social media made people lose their minds when it comes to what should and shouldn’t be posted? Apparently sonogram photos are not off-limits for boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. According to BlackSportsOnline, Mayweather posted and then deleted a sonogram of ex-fiancee Shantel Christine Jackson on his Instagram account. The caption read: “The real reason…

On the heels of a change in NCAA rules that now allows student athletes an unlimited number of meals, Florida State University’s Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston was allegedly caught shoplifting crab legs from a Publix supermarket. Crab. Legs. How do you shoplift crab legs? Do you grab them out of the tank and stuff…